Hello, welcome to Crusade With Me podcast.
This is not a full podcast episode.
This is what we are calling a Crusade With Me Challenge.
I am throwing out a challenge to all listeners,
to people who would take this into heart
and consider this, that this is Sunday.
This will be dropping on Sunday evening.
And the challenge is how to create the mindset
to have a great week.
We have a podcast that dropped yesterday,
talked about mindsets.
I know it was a little ahead of schedule
because I plan on doing it today.
We have a second podcast dropping today,
talking about weak men and weak churches.
And that's a second episode of that.
The first one I did solo,
this one will be with my son Andrew.
And I wanna conclude this week
and I wanna prepare for next week.
And as we have stated repeatedly,
I want everybody to be aware,
just because we're putting this podcast out
and put this together,
does not mean that we have all the answers
and that we are doing some great things.
We all have challenges
and we need a community, one another,
to lean on, to learn from, to encourage
and continue the fight to be better people.
So it is Sunday, so what I would like you to do,
and I have been doing this for a couple of weeks,
that it has proven very fruitful,
is sit down and reflect on what went well last week
and what you accomplished, all right?
And I've said this time and time again,
if you had a good week, make a note of it.
Why?
Why did you have a good week?
And then write it down.
Why you had a good week?
What did you do that had a good week?
And then now you've got it documented.
Hey, read it and maybe have another good week sometime.
That's why it's important to Sunday,
afternoons, on the evening, sit down,
think about this last week.
What are you grateful for?
What went well?
What could you have done differently
to make something go better than it did?
We have to learn.
Also, I want you to sit down
and think about this coming week.
Schedule everything that you can for the upcoming week.
List all the appointed times that you have
for your commitments for the week.
Then list out all the tasks
that you wish to complete in the week.
Task, goals.
I have tasks that I have to do.
Those are sometimes different than that sometimes.
Most of the time they're different than goals.
Plan those out.
Schedule them.
And then you have to do that.
You have to do that.
Schedule time in your plan to commit each task
that you wish to accomplish.
And then I want you to wake up Monday morning,
maybe a little earlier than you normally do, all right?
My normal wake up time is 4.30,
so I've been getting up at four o'clock in the morning.
And let me put it this way.
If you don't have a schedule like mine
where I need to be out of the door
and heading to a location at a specific time,
schedule a time anyway.
And I would purport to,
do you probably need to get up at the same time every day
anyway, because it's kind of better for your body.
And it does not take you long to get into that habit.
I promise you.
Schedule a time to get up.
Give yourself about a half hour.
And this is the challenge, part two of the challenge,
because part one of the challenges,
document what we were grateful for,
what was a good part of last week.
And then the second part of that is,
plan out this coming week.
Write down everything that you got to do on your schedule.
Schedule time to get things done.
Because if you don't do that, it's a wish list
and it'll never happen.
Schedule it and make it happen.
And finally, Monday morning when you wake up
and I want you to do this every morning,
get up a half hour earlier than you normally would.
And I want you to do not grab your cell phone.
See, that's one of my downfalls.
That's one of my addictions.
My work is heavily reliant upon my cell phone.
And it's a terrible habit that I have,
that first thing I do is grab my cell phone.
So this is a challenge.
This week, tomorrow morning, when you rise,
get up early, a half hour earlier,
so you have time to do this routine.
Dare I say ritual, let me call it a routine.
First thing we need to do is,
let's start our day with prayer.
And I've talked about praying a lot on this podcast.
I'm gonna give you a prayer to pray tomorrow morning
and every morning thereafter.
But tomorrow morning, this is the prayer that you can pray.
I thank you, my heavenly Father,
through Jesus Christ, your dear son,
that you have kept me this night from all harm and danger
and I pray that you would keep me this day also
from sin and every evil.
That all my doings and life may please you.
For into your hands I commend my soul, my body,
and myself, and all things.
Let your holy angel be with me,
that the evil foe may have no power over me.
It's in Jesus' name that we pray,
who lives and reigns with you,
one God now and forever.
Amen.
That's the way you're gonna start the day tomorrow.
I would also suggest you start the day every day
this coming week by praying that prayer.
Then for the 27th of January, which will be Monday,
open your Bible, do some scripture reading.
And I will purport to you, I will challenge you.
I'll give you the scripture reading for tomorrow.
Read Zechariah chapter four
all the way through chapter five, verse 11.
When you're done doing that,
read Romans, Romans chapter 15,
verses 14 through 33.
Tomorrow, January 27th,
in the church it's the honor day for John Christomo.
Christo, Christ, I can't even say it, Christo.
There's the challenge.
This is the first challenge of the year,
first challenge of this podcast that I'm putting out there.
Will you crusade with me?
Sit down today, this evening, Sunday night.
Reflect on what went well last week and what you accomplished.
Write it down, also write down what didn't go well
and how you can handle it differently this coming week.
Schedule everything that you can from the upcoming week.
List in a point time of each commitment that you have,
then list out the tasks that you wish
to complete or accomplish this week.
And schedule time in your plan to commit time
to each task that you wish to accomplish this week.
And then pray to work at completing these tasks as planned
and as just by a rearranging life,
because guess what, life is always changing.
So you may put the schedule together
and it might blow up in your face, but guess what?
Reschedule, don't stop, don't give up, get it done.
Let's build some consistency.
Let's frame our mindset to be the best.
Let's frame our mindset to be that of Christ,
focusing on Christ.
There's a challenge, the first challenge of the year,
first challenge of the podcast.
May God bless you and keep you.